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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Snake
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, rendered in fine detail by engraver Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation of the neck. The circular legend reads ELIZABETH II to the upper left and AUSTRALIA 2013 to the upper right, with the denomination 1 DOLLAR inscribed along the lower field, all separated by raised dot stops. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese, Latin |
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The "Year of the Snake" dollar was part of a long-running Perth Mint lunar series targeting the substantial Chinese-Australian collector market, a demographic the Mint began courting aggressively in the 1990s. These issues were struck for circulation but rarely circulated — most were absorbed immediately by collectors and gift-buyers, leaving survivors in genuinely high condition through no particular virtue of the minting process.
KM#2139 is the circulation-strike version; the Mint simultaneously released silver and gold collector issues in the same lunar theme, a parallel production strategy that had become formulaic by this point in the series.